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into the quotidian: November 08, 2010
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Monday, November 8, 2010. What are living bodies made of? Of anything at all. To understand what I mean, we have to turn our attention back on the question itself. What does it mean to ask what something is made of? What does this question assume about the thing in question, and what sort of answer are we looking for? A roll-top desk not unlike my own. Consider a simple example: an old roll-top desk that I’ve had since I was a child. What is this desk made of? From which it was constructed. My desk, like...
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into the quotidian: Sick of the brain
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Thursday, February 5, 2009. Sick of the brain. Posted by Mlle. Le Renard. Can I tell you how sick I am of the Brain? The 90s were the decade of the Brain. And it's all been very exciting. But how do we get past the brain and back to personhood? I know at least N believes I worship the god of Science at an electronic shrine (! For example, today, I read my students latest paper proposals. Soooo many of them are convinced that the mind is the brain, is a person. What do I do? My therapist and I are now "br...
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into the quotidian: December 01, 2008
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Monday, December 1, 2008. Posted by Mlle. Le Renard. A thought on perception from Merleau-Ponty:. My first perception, along with the horizons which surrounded it, is an ever-present event, an unforgettable tradition; even as a thinking subject, I still am that first perception, the continuation of that same life inaugurated by it." (PP 407). I think this is interesting because. 2 the tradition is "unforgettable." are all traditions? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Il y a un autre monde,.
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into the quotidian: December 03, 2008
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008. How does newness help us change? Kascha, in your previous post (or two posts ago now, I guess), you were discussing the possibility of something novel happening to us. I think that is a very interesting problem, and really forms the heart of Levinas' philosophical project (which grows out of his reading of Husserl; for an interesting, and I think quite compelling, example of this argument, see John E. Drabinski's. Is there anything helpful here? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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into the quotidian: What is manufacturing?
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Monday, November 15, 2010. In a previous post, I raised the question of the difference between manufacturing and growth, and we've been kicking that question around a bit in comments. As a first step toward answering that question—and in response to one of Neal's questions in comments—here's a quick post on what manufacturing is, and how it works. Consider again the desk that I was using as an example in my previous post. Having already learned what it's made of, we now want to know how. Subscribe to: Po...
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into the quotidian: On leading a (philosophical) discussion
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Thursday, November 5, 2009. On leading a (philosophical) discussion. I recently had occasion to reflect on the question of how to lead a good discussion. What happened, in fact, was that I needed to give someone advice on how to do this, and didn't know quite what to say. I've since sat down and thought about it, and here's what I've come up with. Ideally, the members of a discussion would be able to take care of the conversation themselves. What would this look like? November 5, 2009 at 2:55 PM. Excelle...
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into the quotidian: February 05, 2009
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Thursday, February 5, 2009. Sick of the brain. Posted by Mlle. Le Renard. Can I tell you how sick I am of the Brain? The 90s were the decade of the Brain. And it's all been very exciting. But how do we get past the brain and back to personhood? I know at least N believes I worship the god of Science at an electronic shrine (! For example, today, I read my students latest paper proposals. Soooo many of them are convinced that the mind is the brain, is a person. What do I do? My therapist and I are now "br...
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into the quotidian: November 15, 2010
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Monday, November 15, 2010. In a previous post, I raised the question of the difference between manufacturing and growth, and we've been kicking that question around a bit in comments. As a first step toward answering that question—and in response to one of Neal's questions in comments—here's a quick post on what manufacturing is, and how it works. Consider again the desk that I was using as an example in my previous post. Having already learned what it's made of, we now want to know how.
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into the quotidian: The Turing test and the Chinese Room
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009. The Turing test and the Chinese Room. John mentioned the Turing test in comments on my last post, so I thought I'd say a few words about it. The Turing test was Alan Turing's attempt to define objective criteria for answering the question, "Can machines think? See Turing's 1950 paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Essentially, the criterion Turing proposed was that a machine is intelligent if it can persuade an external observer that it's intelligent. 1 THE CHINESE ROOM.
